Mr. Sunshine.. Cut both and go to a flat tax (even if it’s minor teirs, say 12% 15% 18%, with the first 20K in earnings exempt) and eliminate deductions.. raising taxes on the rich will only lead to more circumvention of the rates, they paid on average below 10% thanks to deductions and planned write-offs..

I hope a lot of people show up Tuesday to tell Mr Gibson how upset and disappointed they are in his vote on Medicare. Vouchers in not the answer to improving the health of seniors. Wake up people…this is an all out attempt to gut services to the American people…and give tax breaks to Corporations and to those individuals who earn over $1 million bucks a year NET income. What about the vast majority of us..? too bad..

Gibson didn’t vote to just cut Medicare and Medicaid, he voted to destroy them. Seniors would no longer have their healthcare fully covered, but would instead get a voucher from the government so they could theoretically go out and purchase insurance on the open market. Cost savings are created by giving people vouchers that grow in value slower than medical costs so in a few years you couldn’t afford insurance anymore. Plus, the really outrageous part is that they want to use the cost savings to give further tax breaks to the richest!

And in the future, how does a 80-90+ senior with limited transportation or dementia or other limiting medical condition actually go about understanding the new voucher system and how and where to “shop” to obtain their medical insurance…get real…is this an anuual voucher so they would have to do this constantly or is it a one time amount and if the amount gets used up..well too bad – go see the “death panel” in your neighborhood??
Universal health care – keep it simple and all inclusive.

What happened to coverage of this event last night? From WNYT I heard that there were quite a few demonstrators there, and from other sources I hear that people were upset with Gibson’s vote to gut Medicare and Medicaid. Why nothing in the TU?